A dragon without a rider is a tragedy.
A rider without a dragon is dead.
ARTICLE ONE, SECTION ONE, THE CODE OF THE RIDERS
“Is there anyone else who wants to change their mind?” shouts Zayden, looking at the other recruits with the same malevolent gaze as the blue dragon behind him. “No? Perfect. About half of you will be dead by next summer.”
Everyone in the formation is silent, and only some muffled sobs are heard to my left.
“One third of you will be dead by the second year, and just as many by the third. Here, no one cares who your mom or dad is. Even the second son of King Taurean died during the Choosing. So tell me again: Do you feel invincible now that you’ve managed to reach the Quarter of the Riders? Do you feel immortal? Do you feel like you’re in the elite?”
No one cheers now.
I’m hit by another wave of heat, this time straight in the face, and I shrink at the incineration that awaits me. But it isn’t flames… it’s just steam that flicks Rhiannon's braids back as the dragons exhale simultaneously. The first-year's pants in front of me start to blacken, the color spreading down his legs. They want us to be afraid of them. They succeeded. “Because to them, you are neither immortal nor special.”
Zayden points to the blue dragon and leans forward a bit, looking us in the eyes as if he wants to tell us a secret. “To them, you are simply prey.”
Meet the barbaric and elite world of the military academy for dragon riders in the bestselling book by Rebecca Yarros. Twenty-year-old Violet Sorengail would normally enter the Quarter of the Scriveners and live a quiet life with her books.
Now, the commanding general – and hard-hearted mother – has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates vying to become the elite of Navar… after they first become dragon riders. However, because she is the smallest of them all and her body is fragile, death seems just a breath away…
On one hand, because dragons do not bond with “fragile” humans. Instead, they incinerate them. On the other hand, other candidate riders want to kill Violet. As the dragons willing to bond are fewer than the recruits, most candidates see Violet’s death as an increase in their own odds. Many, however, want to kill her simply because she is her mother’s daughter – like Zayden Rhierson, the most powerful and ruthless wing leader in the Quarter of the Riders.
Violet will need every ounce of her cleverness to face the next dawn. However, with each passing day, the war outside grows more brutal, the magical chambers of the kingdom weaken, and the dead continue to rise. And the worst? Violet begins to suspect that the leaders are hiding a terrible secret.
Friends, enemies, lovers. Everyone at the Basgaiath military academy has an agenda – because once you enter, there are only two ways to leave: either to graduate or to die.
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- Author
- Rebecca Yarros
- Publisher
- Dioptra
- Original Title
- Fourth Wing
- Type
- Fantasy, Erotic-Romantic
- Subtitle
- Fourth Wing
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 584
- Release Date
- 10/2024
- Publication Date
- 2024
- Dimensions
- 15x23 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9786182208618
Additional Specifications
- Series
- The Empyrean
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